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220: The Cloud Pod Read Llama Llama Red Pajama

07/26/23 • 29 min

The Cloud Pod

Welcome episode 220 of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts, Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew discuss all things cloud, including virtual machines, an AI partnership between Microsoft and Meta for Llama 2, Lambda functions, Fargate, and lots of security updates including the Outlook breach and WORM protections. This and much more in our newest episode. Titles we almost went with this week:

Too Many Bees died for Honeycode
Microsoft announces that AI will only cost you 3 arms and a leg.
The Cloud Pod also detects Recursive Loops in cloud news
The cloud pod disables health checks bc who needs them

A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.

News this Week: AWS

02:02 Detecting and stopping recursive loops in AWS Lambda functions

Do you utilize AWS Lambda? Here’s an update for you.
AWS Lambda is introducing a recursion control to detect and stop lambda functions running in a recursive or infinite loop.
This supports Lambda Integrations with SQS, SNS or directly via the Invoke API.
Lambda defects functions that appear to be running in a recursive loop and drops the request after exceeding 16 invocations
This can help reduce costs from an unexpected lambda invocation because of recursion.
You’ll receive notification that this action was taken through the AWS Health Dashbboard, email or by configuring Amazon Cloudwatch Alarms.
You can turn this off by reaching out to AWS support, if you have a valid use-case where recursion is intentional, or if you need to loop something through more than 16 times.
This is also the trap – if you say turn it off and then cry about a ridiculous bill due to your runaway recursion – they will now force you to pay it. So, listeners beware.

03:50 Matt- “I can definitely say I’ve caused an ‘in the hundreds of dollars’ very rapidly by this in the past in a dev account. So it’s definitely something that’s easy to do if you are doing recursion and you make an ‘if’ statement the wrong way.”

04:28 AWS Fargate Enables Faster Container Startup using Seekable OCI

Are you a Fargate user who has been jealous of all those folks using ECS who have been able to utilize the seekable OCI or Sochi capability of lazy loading of containers? Well pine away no m

Welcome episode 220 of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts, Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew discuss all things cloud, including virtual machines, an AI partnership between Microsoft and Meta for Llama 2, Lambda functions, Fargate, and lots of security updates including the Outlook breach and WORM protections. This and much more in our newest episode. Titles we almost went with this week:

Too Many Bees died for Honeycode
Microsoft announces that AI will only cost you 3 arms and a leg.
The Cloud Pod also detects Recursive Loops in cloud news
The cloud pod disables health checks bc who needs them

A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.

News this Week: AWS

02:02 Detecting and stopping recursive loops in AWS Lambda functions

Do you utilize AWS Lambda? Here’s an update for you.
AWS Lambda is introducing a recursion control to detect and stop lambda functions running in a recursive or infinite loop.
This supports Lambda Integrations with SQS, SNS or directly via the Invoke API.
Lambda defects functions that appear to be running in a recursive loop and drops the request after exceeding 16 invocations
This can help reduce costs from an unexpected lambda invocation because of recursion.
You’ll receive notification that this action was taken through the AWS Health Dashbboard, email or by configuring Amazon Cloudwatch Alarms.
You can turn this off by reaching out to AWS support, if you have a valid use-case where recursion is intentional, or if you need to loop something through more than 16 times.
This is also the trap – if you say turn it off and then cry about a ridiculous bill due to your runaway recursion – they will now force you to pay it. So, listeners beware.

04:28 AWS Fargate Enables Faster Container Startup using Seekable OCI

Are you a Fargate user who has been jealous of all those folks using ECS who have been able to utilize the seekable OCI or Sochi capability of lazy loading of containers? Well pine away no m

Previous Episode

219: The Cloud Pod Proclaims: One Does Not Just Entra into Mordor

Welcome episode 219 of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Today your hosts are Justin and Jonathan, and they discuss all things cloud, including clickstream analytics, databricks, Microsoft Entra, virtual machines, Outlook threats, and some major changes over at the Google Cloud team. Titles we almost went with this week:

TCP is not Entranced with Entra ID
The Cave you Fear to Entra, Holds the Treasure you Seek
Microsoft should rethink Entra rules for their Email

A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.

News this Week: AWS

00:47 Clickstream Analytics on AWS for Mobile and Web Applications

Want some solutions? Don’t we all! Well, for clickstream analytics at least, Amazon has released an update that has pre built solutions using Amazon components.
Covers iOS and Android
You can now deploy an end-to-end solution to capture, ingest, store, analyze and visualize your customers’ clickstreams inside your web and mobile applications.
This solution is built using standard AWS services to allow you to keep your data in the security and compliance perimeter of your AWS account and customize the processing and analytics as you require, giving you the full flexibility to extract value for your business.
The new solution leverages ECS+Kafka/Kineses/S3, EMR, Redshift and Quicksight
You can use plugins to transform the data during processing via EMR< AWS has provided you to build in ones for User Agent enrichment and IP address enrichment.
- You can also export your source server inventory list to a CSV file and download it to your local disk.
- You can always continue leveraging the previously launched import and export functionality to and from an S3 bucket if you’re so inclined.
- Additional Post launch actions, adds four predefined post launch actions.
  - Configure Time Sync
  - Validate Disk Space
  - Verify HTTP(S) response
  - Enable Amazon Inspector
If only this had been written 9 months ago when everyone was trying to run away from Google analytics...

02:45 Justin- “I believe they have cloud cost optimization opportunities and solutions, but I would appreciate maybe some additional of those. More dashboards, more pretty pictures for

Next Episode

221: The Biggest Innovator in SFTP in 30 Years? Amazon Web Services!

Welcome episode 221 of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts, Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew look at some of the announcements from AWS Summit, as well as try to predict the future – probably incorrectly – about what’s in store at Next 2023. Plus, we talk more about the storm attack, SFTP connectors (and no, that isn’t how you get to the Moscone Center for Next) Llama 2, Google Cloud Deploy and more! Titles we almost went with this week:

Now You Too Can Get Ignored by Google Support via Mobile App
The Tech Sector Apparently Believes Multi-Cloud is Great... We Hate You All.
The cloud pod now wants all your HIPAA Data
The Meta Llama is Spreading Everywhere
The Cloud Pod Recursively Deploys Deploy

A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.

News this Week:

00:33 HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey 2023: The tech sector perspective

We didn’t find anything in the survey particularly interesting, until they broke it down by respondents who are actively in the tech industry.
Despite strong Macro pressure and recent earnings reports about slowness in growth, 48% of respondents increased their cloud spend in the last 12 months
94% of tech industry respondents indicated that multi-cloud works, citing that it has advanced or achieved their company’s business goals.
- Sure, Jan.
91% of tech companies rely on platform teams.

01:37 Justin – “The thing about that is, I could see the value for Saas vendors, right? Especially if you’re dealing with large data ingestion. I think we were talking to New Relic, for example, when they launched a New Relic on Azure.It saves their customers a bunch of money because they’re not doing egress charges out to the internet to AWS to basically get the New Relic data in. And they see that as a strategy that helps customers reduce money and also helps increase adoption as well as partnership opportunities.”

AWS

05:11 AWS Summit New York just happened, and there were a lot of announcements (and protests.) We won’t spend a lot of time going over each of these in the show, but the link are available for you to peruse at your leisure.

Introducing AWS HealthImaging — purpose-built for medical imaging at scale
- AWS is very excited to announce the general availability of AWS HealthImaging, a purpose-built service that helps builders develop cloud-native applications that store, analyze, and share medical imaging data at a petabyte scale. HealthImaging ingests data in the DICOM P10 format. It provides APIs for low-latency retrieval and purpose-built storage.